Open Source Softwares

Here is the list of some of the favorite open source softwares. Out of them i have used Firefox, Filezilla, 7-zip, K-Meleon and Open office.

May be you can give a try to some of these.

Office Software: OpenOffice l AbiWord l Sunbird
DTP / PDF :Scribus l PDFCreator l Sumatra PDF
Graphic Software: Blender l Gimp l InkScape
E-mail Software: Thunderbird l Sylpheed l Columba
Compression :7-ZIP l PeaZip l TUGZip
CAD Software: FreeCAD l BRL-CAD
WEB Editors :NVU l Aptana l Amaya
WEB Browsers: Firefox l SeaMonkey l K-Meleon
FTP & Copying: FileZilla l WinSCP l HTTrack
File Managers :FreeCommander l Mad l Krusader
Audio Software: AudaCity l CDex l Zinf l Mixxx
Video Software :VirtualDub l VLC Media Player
Antivirus :ClamWin l ClamAV
Utilities :KeePass l Notepad++ l EasyCleaner

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Downloading Free Softwares

Here is the list of websites i use whenever i try to download any free software from net.
This list can be huge but i am adding the ones which i use.

I think the best of all is www.filehippo.com as it contains few softwares which are very famous.

www.tucows.com
www.softpedia.com
www.download.com
www.filehippo.com
http://www.jumbo.com
http://www.simtel.net/
http://www.soft32.com/
http://www.sofotex.com/

You can get latest news about new softwares released etc..at
www.betanews.com

Free Anti Virus Solutions Available

Lot of time people might be wondering what are the different free anti virus solutions available in the market.

I will be listing out the anti virus softwares which i use personally.

1)Avast

2)AVG Anti Virus

3)Quick heal

4) Panda Anti Virus

Out of all AVG seems to be the best but only problem is that its huge to download.

Avast interface is good it looks like a music player. So easy to navigate for a newbie.

Even though quick heal is not a free software i will give you a small tweak to it.
you install trial edition of quick heal in your system, then you uninstall it and crate a new folder and install it again thats all. so you never need to buy any anti virus again.

If you dont want to install any anti virus to your system because you are thinking that your system performance is reducing then the best thing to do is to do an online scanning of your system. There are lot of vendors available for online scanning of PC. I personally prefer Panda anti virus software for the same.